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Set 1: Science As a Way of Learning: a Guide to the Natural World

Set 2: Fundamental Building Blocks: Chemistry, Water, and Ph

Set 3: Lifes Components: Biological Molecules

Set 4: Lifes Home: the Cell

Set 5: Lifes Border: the Plasma Membrane

Set 6: Lifes Mainspring: an Introduction to Energy

Set 7: Vital Harvest: Deriving Energy From Food

Set 8: The Green Worlds Gift: Photosynthesis

Set 9: The Links in Lifes Chain: Genetics and Cell Division

Set 10: Preparing for Sexual Reproduction: Meiosis

Set 11: The First Geneticist: Mendel and His Discoveries

Set 12: Units of Heredity: Chromosomes and Inheritance

Set 13: Passing on Lifes Information: Dna Structure and Replication

Set 14: How Proteins Are Made: Genetic Transcription, Translation, and Regulation

Set 15: The Future Isnt What It Used to Be: Biotechnology

Set 16: An Introduction to Evolution: Charles Darwin, Evolutionary Thought, and the Evidence for Evolution

Set 17: The Means of Evolution: Microevolution

Set 18: The Outcomes of Evolution: Macroevolution

Set 19: A Slow Unfolding: the History of Life on Earth

Set 20: Arriving Late, Traveling Far: the Evolution of Human Beings

Set 21: Viruses, Bacteria, Archaea, and Protists: the Diversity of Life 1

Set 22: Fungi : the Diversity of Life 2

Set 23: Animals: the Diversity of Life 3

Set 24: Plants: the Diversity of Life 4

Set 25: The Angiosperms: Form and Function in Flowering Plants

Set 26: Body Support and Movement: the Integumentary, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems

Set 27: Communication and Control 1: the Nervous System

Set 28: Communication and Control 2: the Endocrine System

Set 29: Defending the Body: the Immune System

Set 30: Transport and Exchange 1: Blood and Breath

Set 31: Transport and Exchange 2: Digestion, Nutrition, and Elimination

Set 32: An Amazingly Detailed Script: Animal Development

Set 33: How the Baby Came to Be: Human Reproduction

Set 34: An Interactive Living World 1: Populations in Ecology

Set 35: An Interactive Living World 2: Communities in Ecology

Set 36: An Interactive Living World 3: Ecosystems and Biomes

Set 12 Units Of Heredity Chromosomes And Inheritance

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Set 12 Units Of Heredity Chromosomes And Inheritance

(Multiple Choice)

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A trait such as albinism is seen with equal frequency in males and females. Two people who do not have the trait might have offspring who do have the trait, at a frequency of approximately one in four. What can you conclude about the inheritance of this trait?

A) recessive, X-linked
B) recessive, autosomal
C) recessive, caused by polyploidy
D) dominant, X-linked
E) dominant, autosomal

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(Multiple Choice)

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What is a recessive disorder?

A) a genetic disorder with two functioning alleles
B) a genetic disorder that will express itself in the presence of one functioning allele
C) a genetic disorder that will express itself in the presence of two recessive alleles
D) a genetic disorder that involves change in chromosome number
E) a genetic disorder that involves change in chromosome structure

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(Multiple Choice)

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A person with an inherited disorder has children with a person who does not have the condition. Half the children have the disorder, both sons and daughters. How is this condition inherited?

A) autosomal dominant
B) autosomal recessive
C) X-linked dominant
D) X-linked recessive
E) aneuploidy

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